The article considers contemporary Jamaican writer Erna Brodber's novel Myal in the context of Afro-Caribbean tradition, and in comparison with literary conventions of postmodernism and postcolonial fiction taking into account the gender dimension as well. The author examines Brodber's specific scientific-fictional mode based on the participatory sociology and the healing power of community. The article offers a historical and cultural analysis of Myalism as a hybrid religion of liberation finding a literal and metaphorical expression in the novel. The author dwells on the analysis of the specific Caribbean "skaz" (oral narrative) grounded in the cultural and linguistic code-switching as Brodber's main instrument in the creation of her artistic universe; and concentrates on the non-linear anti-progressive time model the novel is based on. A special attention is paid to a thorough examination of narrative, structural, plot and characterization principles of Myal which becomes a complex narrative puzzle with a false bottom. The article comes to a conclusion on the singularity of Brodber's poetics as she sees her creative work as an act of healing, liberation and reconstruction of the wholeness of being, consciousness and aesthesis of the writer and the readers. This distinguishes her both from the resistance model of postcolonial fiction and the total fragmentation as the main postmodernist leitmotif.